Hannah Whitall Smith (1832–1911). Born on February 7, 1832, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Quaker parents John Mickle and Mary Tatum Whitall, Hannah Whitall Smith became a prominent lay evangelist, author, and reformer in the Holiness and Higher Life movements. Raised in a strict Quaker home, she married Robert Pearsall Smith, also a Quaker, in 1851, and they had seven children, though only three—Mary, Alys, and Logan—survived to adulthood. In 1858, both underwent a conversion influenced by the Plymouth Brethren, leading them to embrace Wesleyan sanctification by faith. From 1864 to 1868, they lived in Millville, New Jersey, managing her father’s glass business, where they engaged with the Holiness movement. Hannah began preaching in the 1870s, and from 1873 to 1875, she and Robert spoke across England, including at the Broadlands and Brighton conferences, earning her the nickname “angel of the churches” for her eloquent sermons on holiness. Her book The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life (1875), advocating surrender to God’s will, sold millions globally, though she wrote it reluctantly to curb her husband’s drinking. After Robert’s 1875 scandal halted their British ministry, Hannah focused on writing, authoring Every-Day Religion (1893), The Unselfishness of God (1903), and The God of All Comfort (1906), and co-founded the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in 1874, later leading its Evangelistic Department. A feminist and suffragist, she influenced her niece, M. Carey Thomas, and moved to England in 1888, where her home hosted intellectuals like Bertrand Russell, her son-in-law. She died on May 1, 1911, in Iffley, England, saying, “God is enough!”